As long as exploring something from 20 angles at least stays sort of on the original topic, and if I was actually intending to research that topic, I wouldn't feel as disappointed with myself. But I tend to jump from one topic to another, and spend so much time on things which have very little to do with the original question I wanted to get answered. Then I end up feeling "gah, why did I do that?", or even worse, depressed by all the bad stuff I ended up reading about.
Personally, I like having my complete browser history available, for cases like this*, and also for in general. It's like having a record showing part of what I was doing on any arbitrary day, without having to physically write anything down.
That's why when I accidentally lose a portion of my browsing history, it upsets me. I've found that even if you have Firefox set to never delete history, it still only stores up to a certain amount. On my machine, it seems to be about 160,000 entries or 2.5 years. So if one really wants to be able to access all history, one has to periodically backup the places.sqlite file. Actually, it looks like there is now an about:config setting to let you control how much is stored.
But having the history get too big is probably a drag on browser performance. What what be good is a utility that runs every so often, to move my history out of the places.sqlite file, into some other file, which I could access with the Nirsoft MzHistoryView tool. Another thing to research!
*Though based on my history, I haven't researched the Iko-Iko lyrics before, at least not in the last 3 to 5 years... unless it was in one of those blips where I lost history... Or maybe I happened to be using a different browser... Now I'll never know.
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Personally, I like having my complete browser history available, for cases like this*, and also for in general. It's like having a record showing part of what I was doing on any arbitrary day, without having to physically write anything down.
That's why when I accidentally lose a portion of my browsing history, it upsets me. I've found that even if you have Firefox set to never delete history, it still only stores up to a certain amount. On my machine, it seems to be about 160,000 entries or 2.5 years. So if one really wants to be able to access all history, one has to periodically backup the places.sqlite file. Actually, it looks like there is now an about:config setting to let you control how much is stored.
But having the history get too big is probably a drag on browser performance. What what be good is a utility that runs every so often, to move my history out of the places.sqlite file, into some other file, which I could access with the Nirsoft MzHistoryView tool. Another thing to research!
*Though based on my history, I haven't researched the Iko-Iko lyrics before, at least not in the last 3 to 5 years... unless it was in one of those blips where I lost history... Or maybe I happened to be using a different browser... Now I'll never know.